[arch-general] Accented characters in X terminal?

[Mauro Santos]

On 15-12-2011 08:51, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 21:07, Mauro Santos <registo.mailling at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> Thinking better about it, check your pacman logs for any font updates
>> and try setting the terminal emulator to use a different font, maybe to
>> a font that renders properly in other places like a text editor.
> 
> There is nothing that stands out, and changing the font doesn't
> improve things at all :(
> 
> I also tried logging into Gnome3 (using GDM) and then I do get the
> accented characters, in both lxterminal and gnome-terminal.
> 
> /M
> 

The only thing that comes to mind now is that gnome3 is overriding (and
correctly setting) your keyboard layout. Maybe you can try 'setxkbmap
-query' and see if you spot any differences between the setup that works
and the one that doesn't.

-- 
Mauro Santos